SKIPPER Nathan Sharpe has indicated the Wallabies harnessed Quade Cooper's "toxic environment" comments to inspire a win over Argentina in Rosario and draw with the All Blacks in Brisbane.

Following reports of Cooper's likely exit from Australian rugby yesterday, Sharpe was the only representative of the Wallabies who commented by saying it would disappointing to lose a player of Cooper's talent.

Asked what the Wallabies' reaction to Cooper's allegations of the team being a "toxic environment" during the Rugby Championship, Sharpe said the claims were examined and, despite stopping short of revealing the conclusions, the skipper said two of their best performances in 2012 followed.

"You've got to take an objective view on it," Sharpe said.

"Often emotion clouds decisions when you look at things like that. We spoke to a few people and had a look at the environment, we made our own assumptions and assessments.

"I suppose then we responded the way that we thought we needed to, and I think after that we had a couple of pretty good performances against Argentina and then New Zealand.

"So it's a shame that Quade felt that way, certainly you don't want any player ever feeling like that, but that's the way it rolled out.

"And that's the thing about the Wallaby jersey, it's going to go on no matter who's wearing it."

It is understood a number of senior Wallabies were less than impressed with Cooper's "toxic" outbursts, but in Florence ahead of Sunday's Test against Italy, Sharpe said many players still spoke with the controversial Queensland, and there were no hard feelings.

Sharpe said he had not been in contact with Cooper, having felt his time was needed to address the Wallabies' injury-plagued season instead.

"I guess I thought there's more pressing issues within the team at the moment that we needed to get on top of so it wasn't for me to go down that path," he said.

"There's other guys in the team that fulfill that role, they're good mates with him and catch up with him regularly. The way that they handled that has been good up until this stage."

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